On Good Behavior

Haven’t we yet heard the last of Poor-Little-Misunderstood-but-Look-What-a-Genius-I-Am Don Johnson (Letters, April 11)? Enough already!

Now we have to read of a director, Peter Werner, lauding this latent enfant terrible, all the while dropping names, like an excited codfish aristocrat, of actors he’s guided, several of whom bear recognition as accomplished tantrum throwers themselves.

As an actor who’s also been privileged to play important roles opposite such renowned performers as Mary Martin, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Claude Rains and Fredric March, among many others, I can assure a skeptic reader none of these artists behaved obnoxiously or took rudeness to new heights.

Don Johnson will never be Richard Burton, or even Lee Marvin, no matter how desperately he tries emulating their raucous drinking, hell-bent for being two-fisted, “real men” image.

FREDD WAYNE

Santa Monica